Mike's Ham Page

Welcome to my ham page. I use and enjoy all modes but am primarily a CW
operator and happy to have earned awards DXCC CW #12,029, WAS CW #52,955,
and WAC CW, all earned with 100 W / dipole. The irony, a CW op named
Mike!

Not a ham? If you happened across this
page by chance and are not a ham, you can learn more by surfing on over
to the American Radio Relay League, of which I am a Life Member and whose
link is below. Ham radio is a fun hobby with many
enjoyable aspects to it. There truly is something for everyone.

Ham and CW op? Join an NTS net! Sure, you've been at cw for decades
and hear the washing machine seemingly squeak and groan in CW after a contest,
but traffic nets need a different kind of focus. Not quick, fixed
exchanges, and not a ragchew where it's ok to drop a word here & there.
It's business-like but friendly, because you hang out with the same group.
You meet new people likely to become longtime friends, hone your cw so that
not a single letter is miscopied, and you even become part of a system
that might help the community someday. Sure, the last is less and less
likely in this day and age, but you never know. It is for sure, however,
a skill from down the decades that connects you with the very best operators
in a century of ham radio. See the MSN
link below.

The German band Kraftwerk
sang for Expo 2000, "Mensch Natur Technik" ("Man Nature Technology"),
which I translate into ham-speak as "Operator Atmosphere Radio," though
it's not as musical. :-) Fun music for any ham. Check out the CW in
their "Radioactivity" tune.